Fire at Bokaro power plant
A 30-year-old transformer caught fire at the Bokaro Power Supply Company Private Limited (BPSCL) situated inside Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) on Monday.
There were no casualties in the incident.
It took about two hours for firefighters to douse the flames.
The incident led to loss of power production for a few hours but did not affect BSL’s production.
The 338 MW-capacity-BPSCL plant is a joint venture of DVC and SAIL.
A.K.Singh, chief executive officer of BPSCL said,“reason behind eruption of fire in transformer is yet to be ascertained. We are inquiring about the matter. It is an 80 MVA transformer. The incident affected production as it went down to 80-85 MW, but although our effort is on to restore the power generation back to 130 MW by 11 pm night”.
